Nigeria: Why Boko Haram Terrorists Bombed Churches on Christmas -- Joe Bavier. Daily Beast/Newsweek
Nigerians used to roll their eyes at the rants of Islamist group Boko Haram. Now security forces are cracking down hard. Maybe too hard.
Eager faces filled the dingy hospital ward’s windows, craning for a glimpse of the alleged terrorist. The police had brought him in a few hours earlier, saying he and a friend had been examining some explosives that detonated prematurely. The blast had killed the friend and left the 25-year-old Mohammed Ahmed too badly injured to flee the scene. Now, flanked by police officers with assault rifles, he lay on a rickety iron bed in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, enduring the whispered taunts of strangers, blood seeping through the bandages on his deeply burned legs. He insisted he had nothing to do with bombmaking and was only keeping his friend company. The police saw it differently. “We think he was part of a team,” a detective standing nearby explained, over the din of excited children. “We went into the house. We saw everything: wires, batteries, pliers, chemicals. They were making them there. This was a network ... a terrorist organization.”
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My Comment: A sobering look and analysis on the Nigerian based Islamic terror group known as Boko Haram.
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